Question 467 · LEK · Multiple myeloma
Select the most likely suspected diagnosis in a 72-year-old male patient with fatigue, weight loss, severe bone pain and proteinuria with hypercalcaemia detected on laboratory tests:
- A. renal cancer.
- B. plasma cell myeloma (multiple myeloma).
- C. sarcoidosis.
- D. rheumatoid arthritis.
- E. prostate cancer.
Hint
Combine the CRAB features — hypercalcaemia, renal involvement, anaemia, bone lesions — in an elderly patient.
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